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Licensing for use and impact: Connecting policy with practice

Conference
Brussels

How can licensing help research and innovation deliver greater impact?

This event will bring together policymakers, knowledge and technology transfer professionals, researchers and licensing experts to explore how licensing practices can respond to today’s increasingly complex innovation landscape. Discussions will examine how broader forms of impact can be recognised, how effective tools and approaches can be scaled, and what skills and policy support professionals need to translate research results into practical use.

The event will be particularly relevant to those working in knowledge valorisation, technology transfer, research management, intellectual property, innovation policy and research funding.

9:30 – 10:00
Welcome coffee and registration
10:00 – 10:20
Opening remarks

  • Anna Battiston, Policy Officer, Unit ‘Knowledge Valorisation and Technology Infrastructures’, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

  • Andrea di Anselmo, President & CoFounder of META Group and Coordinator of IMPAC3T-IP
10:20 – 11:05
Panel 1
What do we value in licensing?

This panel will explore how current research and innovation systems prioritise patents and economic value, and whether they adequately recognise licensing approaches that generate broader societal impact. It will examine how evaluation and funding frameworks could evolve to better reflect today’s innovation realities.

  • Gustavo Candela Romero, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Alicante

  • Other speakers soon to be confirmed

Moderated by Yasmina Isabel González Müller, Project Manager and Intellectual Property Specialist at the Office for Institutional Project Management (OGPI), University of Alicante
11:05 – 11:50
Panel 2
From tools to practice and the need to scale effective licensing approaches

Focusing on practical implementation, this panel will discuss existing tools, templates and platforms that support licensing, including those developed by IMPAC3T-IP and other initiatives. It will explore what is needed to scale these approaches across institutions and enable more efficient pathways from research to use.

  • Saara Inkinen, Founder, Nordic Catalyst and LESI Committee Member

  • Niels Lysholm Engelhard, University of Copenhagen

  • Claire Fritz, Senior Innovation Manager & Strategic Advisor, EU IP Helpdesk

Moderated by Ed Maughfling, Head of Business Development, e-Lucid
11:50 – 12:05
Coffee break
12:05 – 12:50
Panel 3
Equipping professionals for new licensing realities

This panel will address the skills gap in knowledge and technology transfer, particularly in areas such as non-traditional IP, multi-stakeholder environments, etc. It will consider how policy and support mechanisms can strengthen the capacity of professionals to manage increasingly complex licensing scenarios.

  • Alessandra Baccigotti, Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Expert, University of Bologna

  • Krystian Gurba, Deputy Director, Jagiellonian University

  • Other speakers soon to be confirmed

Moderated by Laura Macdonald, Chief Executive, ASTP
12:50 – 13:50
Networking lunch
13:50 – 14:35
Panel 4
Licensing in complex scenarios: from policy ambition to implementation

This panel will examine how licensing strategies are applied in practice in complex contexts such as co-creation, crisis response or non-traditional IP. It will highlight where gaps remain between policy ambitions and on-the-ground implementation, and what is needed to better align the two.

  • Jean-Christophe Troussel, President, Licensing Executives Society International (LESI)

  • Federica Baldan, Legal and Policy Officer – Unit ‘Knowledge Valorisation and Technology Infrastructures’, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

  • Other speakers soon to be confirmed

Moderated by Janne Eskola, Vice President, Demola Global
14:35 – 15:00
Conclusions & wrap-up

Concluding remarks, summarising key points, overview of IMPAC3T-IP’s achievements during the project’s lifetime, and what comes next.

  • Andrea di Anselmo, President & CoFounder of META Group and Coordinator of IMPAC3T-IP

Press Club Brussels Europe

Rue Froissart 95
1040 Brussels
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